Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies Archive

The Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES) has been published by the ANU Indonesia Project since 1965. It is currently in the top 20 area studies journal in the world and in the top 15 Asian studies journals. In collaboration with several universities in Indonesia, on 11-18 December 2017, the […]

In the April 2017 issue (53.1) of BIES, Sarah Xue Dong and Chris Manning, in the latest Survey of Recent Developments, focus on the testing times facing Indonesia’s labour market. The authors argue that although some policies—such as the new approach to minimum wages—seem to have had beneficial effects for […]

Each year, the editors of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES) make six recently published articles free to access online. Their selections for 2017 are below. Simply click on the titles to get started. Jokowi and the New Developmentalism Eve Warburton December 2016 (52.3) Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo […]

In November 2016 the BIES Forum was held at Padjajaran University, Bandung (21 November), Universitas Jember in Jember City (22 November) and Nusa Cendana University, Kupang (24 November). The topic was village governance, community life and the 2014 Village Law in Indonesia, based on an article in the August […]

On 12 April 2016, the ANU Indonesia Project, in collaboration with the Institute for Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Business – Universtas Indonesia (LPEM FEB UI) and the Indonesia Services Dialogue (ISD) conducted the Tenth Sadli Lecture and International Services Summit 2016. Professors Mari Pangestu of Universitas […]

The April 2016 issue (52.1) of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES) opens, as is traditional, with an instalment of the journal’s Survey of Recent Developments series. The authors, David Ray and Lili Yan Ing, focus on Indonesia’s infrastructure deficit—that is, the economic and social costs of Indonesia’s decades […]

From December 2003 to August 2015, the print version of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES) regularly published abstracts, in English, of recently completed doctoral theses on the Indonesian economy. During these years, the journal introduced its readers to significant new research and important new researchers, including M. Chatib […]

By Arianto A. Patunru, Blane Lewis, and Robert Sparrow Welcome to the 50th-anniversary issue of BIES. We reflect here on the journal’s analysis of Indonesia’s economic development, offering commemorative articles on three prominent themes—foreign direct investment (FDI), trade policy, and infrastructure policy—and their coverage in BIES since 1965. These articles […]

On Monday 23 March 2015, the ANU Indonesia Project, in collaboration with the Centre for Southeast Asian Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC), presented a seminar in Vancouver, Canada, on sustainability and agriculture in the Indonesian economy: Green Growth For All: Sustainability & Agriculture in the Indonesian […]